It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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